vB Easy Archive - Search Engine Spiderable Hack!

Ok, as a lot of users have installed SkuZZy's and mine vB Easy Archive Hack i've decided to release a vB3 Version as well.

As vB3 already comes with an build in Archive System, it's not that needed than it was in vb2, but for all of you, who have installed the vb2 version and don't want to loose their indexed Pages, this one is for you

I'm lazy and therefore will copy the Releasetext of vb2 by SkuZZy.

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_mime. If you don't have mod_mime, you will still be able to install this hack, just read the install.txt for help then.

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demo

To view a demo of this script, visit this site:
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 3.x
mod_mime installed (not absolutelly required, but recommended)
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - It is recommended to have mod_mime installed to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html
If you want to run vb Easy Archive without mod_mie, please look into the install.txt

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Forumlist yes, but threadlist no - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=91
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=153

Credits
SkuZZy aka Adam J. de Jaray, who gets my Special Thanks for his modifications, releasing and of course his Support to my Script's vb2 version. Note, he does not have anything to do with the vb3 version, but without him, there wouldn't have been the vb2 version and therefore i would never have released the one for vb3

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all I ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "install.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[xtreme-mobile]

i really dont get this


if the mod mime thing is not installed what error would it show?

can you give me an example of what i should have put in the config file please?

it shows up fine but i get errors when i click a link, i realy want this to work big time

my host says the mod mime is installed so i dont understand whats wrong

[Xenon]

if it's not working, it would give you an 404 error on the forum/thread pages

[jesus likes pie]

/me clicks install

[KevinL]

I have to say this works awesome!

One minute after adding the link to it there was spiders crawling all over it.

[Acers]

damn damn...
well shifted my site to new site5 servers and started getting 500 internal server errors...
saw posts on page 8 and it looks like there is no solution for this/// umm xenon proove me wrong and say there is a solution

damn damn

[Acers]

hmm btw i got the default archive of vb working by putting a new php.ini file in as suggested at vb.com
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...3&postcount=13

PHP Code:

<?php 
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
?>

but on doing that, this hack is still not working...


EDIT:


Yipeee...

got it working.
just renamed the forum and topic to .php
edited the config and its working again...
:nervous:

[Acers]

now i have run into another problem In fixing all this i have ended up getting my file names of this kind.

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/search/topic.php/4821-1.html

Notice the .php in between.

umm,,, earlier it was like
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/search/topic/4821-1.html

won't google ignore everything after .php?

and a sideeffect is that all the older cached links in google are giving a 404 errors due to this change. So am flooded with 404 errors guests. Anyway to fix this? or more importantly is that .php inbetween ok?

[Xenon]

the .php in between is ok, directories can have extensions as well, it's jsut not popular

fixing old links, would be doable by mod_rewrite and a nice htaccess hack, with regular expressions, but not sure what exactly it should be

[xtreme-mobile]

ok ive managed to get past the 404 error when i click a forum it now shows the topics.... BUT

when i click the topics it self i get a page can not be found error

also i dont know if this makes a differebce but when i click the topics the url is changed to this

http://localhost/forums/archive/topic/760-1.html

where as this is what it should be

http://extreme-mobile.com/forums/arc...pic/760-1.html

any way of how to fix this?

nearly there

[Xenon]

are you sure you have edited the config files correctly?